I think of it as a very sophisticated form of the kind of consciousness control that we have over our pets - I can get my dog all riled up by playing rough but well-intentioned, or I can put him to sleep by petting him with a meditative vibe, or I can make him sad by becoming sad. It's a crude analogy, granted. But it shows that a superior consciousness can directly control the state of consciousness of a less advanced conscious being.
Do you really think we are like trained pets for aliens?
No that’s not what I said at all. Humans can influence
any animal, not just their own pets, but it is
much easier with domesticated animals. And I don’t see how anybody could argue that we humans have thoroughly domesticated ourselves. So we’re also susceptible to manipulation, just like our pets are. These beings are just way better at it, apparently. That’s my point.
But somehow the [ETH] narrative writes itself.
That happens when you’re on the right track - things make sense and fit together without having to excise all of the physical evidence and abductive logic from the equation.
Yet we have no real proof of alien visitation.
It rubs me the wrong way to hear ufologists sounding like “the noisy negativists,” as Uncle Stanton loves to call them. And “proof” is a relative concept. I’m sure that many ufo witnesses feel that they’ve seen proof of alien visitation – at least “alien” in the sense of “I have no idea wtf that was,” if not the outright “that ain’t from here” sense.
And the rest of us have a significant body of persuasive evidence, and strong and ever-growing scientific arguments in favor of extraterrestrial intelligent life and visitation. I don’t think the objective evidence rises to the level of “proof” yet. But if the trajectory of the last seven decades is any indication, then it seems inevitable. Creepy Green Light keeps wondering where the surveillance camera footage is, and so do I – perhaps the only difference between us is that I’m expecting it to happen sooner or later. I‘ve seen a pair of these babies zig-zagging through the sky in perfect formation alongside five of my neighbors, like watching some kind of extraterrestrial air show. I even ran to my house to get the camera. I have no doubt that those things would’ve shown up on film. One of these days something like that is going to turn up on video, and everybody’s going to say “wtf is that?”
So now we're also helpless and confused in the face of it all. Why give over all power to an unproven entity? Why not start with us first as we are the ones seeing things? Wouldn't that be the first step as opposed to just taking things as they are and identifying us as utterly submissive to our all powerful alien overlords?
This kind of argument strikes me as clear evidence of the nearly infinite expanse of human hubris: “something amazing was witnessed – I must be behind it because I’m just that awesome: god-like, really.” When you think about it, primitive man expressed a similar narcissism when stuff like solar eclipses and earthquakes happened, and they explained it as the gods punishing them or sending them a message. It was always about us. Now the co-creation hypothesis tries to make ufo sightings all about us. It’s just a modern expression of the same humancentric conceit that the universe revolves around us. How many different ways do we have to see that premise proven false before we finally face the music and admit to ourselves that we’re just another transient species in evolutionary history and the cosmos doesn’t give a damn how important we think we are.
Multitudes of credible reports indicate that these extremely unfamiliar, I daresay alien, beings demonstrate complete or nearly complete control of our consciousness when we’re in their presence: total blackouts are common, missing memories, screen memories, thought transfer, paralysis, inexplicable compliance. If our pets could share their stories about a trip to the vet, it would probably sound a lot like the close encounter experiences that so many people report. It’s wishful thinking to proclaim our dominance when all of the reports indicate otherwise. Nobody’s saying that they’re all-powerful. But they seem to traverse the stars with ease, fly circles around our most advanced aircraft, and exercise nearly complete control of our minds in their presence. So yeah, we’re steeply outmatched in all of those areas.
I’m sure that we surpass them in
some things, perhaps things like rock’n roll, film production, dancing, whatever. Maybe droves of them showed up throughout the seventies to download our radio broadcasts, and now some of them are poking around inside of us to figure out what makes us such damn fine musicians. Hell if I know. But are we in charge of this phenomenon? Hell no.
